Radio : EXD 1331 - Sunday April 13, 2025

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This is episode 1331 of EXD. This episode was put together by Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rob Ferraz, and Stephen Perry. On this edition of EXD, 

• A feature on a label out of Truro Nova Scotia named Sewercide Records 
• New Releases by Ultra Razzia, First Attack, Bart and the Brats, Mt Goose, SSIK, Pols, Systema Obsoleto 

THE VALKYRIANS - Heart of Glass (Pork Pie / Stupido / Fat Belt) 

New Releases and Teasers (Chris) - Oi! Oi!

ULTRA RAZZIA - Sans repère (Primator Crew / Longshot)  

ARMISTICE - You Decide (Primator Crew / Longshot)   

ARESI - Ondo Prepara (Mendeku Diskak)  

FIRST ATTACK - Enough (Mendeku Diskak / Longshot)   

SYMPOS - Stout & porter (Primator Crew / Tough Ain’t Enough / Mister Face / Distro-y)

Mixed Bag (Bee) 

THE COMES - ​​さらけだせ (Dogma/City Rocker) 

DTA - 2000 Bullets (Self-Released) 

NO SURVIVORS - Freedom (self released)  

ARTIFICIAL PEACE - World of Hate (Fountain of Youth) 

FALSE CONFESSION - Just as I am (Mystic) 

Mixed bag - Mostly New (Rob) 

DRU THE DRIFTER AND THE BACK ALLEY HOOKERS - Prager U (Goodbye Boozy)  

BART AND THE BRATS - Good Cop Bad Cop (Goodbye Boozy)

MT. GOOSE - KCG9308 (Self-released) 

BAD WAITRESS - Racket Stimulator (Royal Mountain)   

SSIK - Voices (Neon Taste)  

New Releases and Teasers (Chris)

PHANE - Vicious Circle (Phobia) 

PÖLS - Seguimos esperando (Self-released)  

SISTEMA OBSOLETO - Ideias Venenosas (Neon Taste)  

SIVILISAATIO - Sairas yhteiskunta (D.I.Y. Koło / Nanchakupunk) 

BOMBARDEMENT - Prédateur (Kick Rock)   

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Sewercide Records interview (Stephen) 

CAPITAL DEATH - Obstruction of the Truth is nothing new (Squeaky) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT)

DANGERLOVES - Lipsmart (Fashionable Idiots)

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

CAREER SUICIDE - Attempted Suicide (Deranged) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

CRIMINAL INTENT - I Can't Take This 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

WORD ON THE STREET - Street Spirit (Sewercide) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

ANTIBODIES - Swollen Headed Boring Dweeb (Sewercide) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

HAPEA - Kello Käy (Sewercide) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

NO SECTOR - Five Million Lives (Razored Raw)

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

POISON SPEAR - Institutonal Trust (Self-Released) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

ROLAND BLINN AND THE FISHERMEN - Tense (Unknown Coast) 

Interview with Dave Brown (CIUT) 

MISANTHROPIC MINDS - Company Man Blues (Sewercide)

Sewercide contacts:

• Instagram
• Bandcamp
• Website

Radio : EXD 1240 - Sunday February 19th, 2023

Who is Cherl Boyze and what is her connection to Tribe Called Quest. Tune in to tonight’s EXD. We also feature part 2 of a scene report feature with Chris Murdoch in which we explore bands that Chris was in. There’s a review of the Gel show last week. A new release showcase. A power violence set. And we feature a new D-Beat band from Calgary called Closetalkers. Download the show here.

DEAD KENNEDYS - Soup is good food (Alternative Tentacles)

Scene report - Chris Murdoch (Part 2) 
MEAN STREETS - Problems (Self-Released) 
NEGATIVE RAGE - Snot Nose (Self-Released)
WORD ON THE STREET - Word To The Wise (REACT!)
OUTTACONTROLLER - Partner In Crime (P-Trash)
SOUVENIR - Circles (Self-Released) 

 

New Releases (Chris Overall) 
SHARIZZA - Oma (Turbo Discos) 
SPLIT TONGUE - Class War (Hardcore Victim) 
SIAL - Sangkar (LVEUM) 
PHYSIQUE - Unreal Cruelty (Iron Lung) 
PEST CONTROL - Judgement Time (Hardcore Victim)
HIATUS - End is Near (Ruin Nation) 

BHM 
So Anthony Reid is a long standing guy in the scene. He has been going to shows long before I was in the scene and we were brainstorming punk bands with members with black musicians in the band and here are some that I have never played on the show before.
NASTY FACTS - Drive My Car (Jimboco / 5th Column / Left for Dead)
SCREAMING SNEAKERS - Grin and Bear (Revoltation / Generation)
CULT HEROES - Amerikan Story (Rave Up)
ANTI-FLAG - Mumia's Song (A-F)
LEFTOVER CRACK - Operation M.O.V.E. (Alternative Tentacles)

MOVE is a radical Black Liberation movement based out of Philadelphia. Founded by the self-named “John Africa”, MOVE has an aggressively anti-capitalist, anti-technology, and anti-government agenda which led first to conflicts with their neighbors and then with the Philadelphia police. The conflict between MOVE and the Philadelphia PD exploded into violence on two occasions, finally culminating in a standoff in 1985 which ended with the police dropping a two pound bomb on the roof of the MOVE compound, starting a fire that destroyed 65 homes and killed 11 MOVE members, including several children. Check this podcast on the bombing of MOVE https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1350-the-africas-vs-america

Show Review of GEL @ 1978, Demo Feature, and Some More New Stuff
HATE STILL BURNS - Down To Earth (DAZE)
HATE STILL BURNS - Killer (DAZE)
HATE STILL BURNS - Weakness (DAZE)
GEL - Attainable (Convulse)
LIFE IN VACUUM - Lost (Born Losers)
FINAL STRUGGLE - Egocide (Self-Released) 
FEVER STRIKE - Grinner (Self-Released)
FEVER STRIKE - Eleven44 (Self-Released)

Power Violence
RECENSION - Xtakexaxlittlexoffxthexedgex (Self-Released)
WOUND MAN - Hollowed (Iron Lung) 
BRAIN TOURNIQUET - Deny (Iron Lung)
DROP DEAD - Pliers (Armageddon)
BLACK FLAG - No More (SST)
UNCLE RAY - Delusion (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
Closetalkers is a hardcore punk band from Calgary featuring members of DEATHKNELL, and PMMA, Demonstration ‘23 was self released in January, and Closetalkers will be hitting the west coast for a string of shows in June, then out in late summer/early fall to eastern Canada as well. Next show is in Calgary on March 18th with DESGRACIADOS from Deranged Records. Tagged as a D-Beat hardcore band, there is a barreling bass sound matched with some haunting vocals and a buzzsaw guitar. 

CLOSETALKERS - Disparity (Self-Released)
CLOSETALKERS - Cursed (Self-Released)
CLOSETALKERS - Mess (Self-Released)
CLOSETALKERS - Decapitated (Self-Released) . 

Radio - Sunday, May 16th, 2021

Tonight's show has energized re-makes of classics by the Clash, the Sex Pistols, The Viletones, the Dead Boys, Zero4, the Undertones, Protex, Crime, and Generation X. There will be fun re-dos of the Ramones, Reagan Youth, Chain on Strength, Cro-Mags, Indigesti, The Freeze, Eskoburto, KK Urbana, the Freeze, Brotherhood, Bouncing Souls, and Cock Sparrer. Interesting interpretations of the Village People, Bowie, Violent Femmes, Tom Jones, Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and White Heat. And some amazing testimonials by former guests, hosts, bands, and listeners of the show. CIUT has thank you face masks for donors of $89.50 to CIUT. Donate at www.ciut.fm. Re-love Sunday's program with a download here.

SAINTS AND SINNERS - Too Much Pressure (KB)

This is CIUT’s semi-annual fundraising drive and we are asking for you to support CIUT with a donation to keep us operating. Any donations will get you entered into a grand prize draw for one of two Everyday Electric Assist pedal bikes valued at $1,800 each courtesy of Everyday Bicycle. 

INNER TERRESTRIALS - Guns of Brixton (Mortarhate)
CHUMBAWAMBA - Bankrobber (AK Press)
Aaron Brown (Generation Annihilation) - Testimonial
ATARASSIA GROP - Mr. Brown (Self-Released)

MR. T EXPERIENCE - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Clearview)
BLITZ - Suffragette City (Dojo)
D GENERATION - Degenerated (Chrysalis / EMI)
RIPCORDZ ID
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - 1977 (Hangman)
THE DOGMATICS - Tell Me (Rum Bar)

SID'S KIDS - Poor Poor Girl (CIUT)
DAVE QUINTON (The Mods / Arson / Stiv Bators) - Testimonial
THE SCREWED - Screamin' Fist (Self-Released)
THE SECRETS - Pretty Woman (Bomb)

PARANOID VISIONS - The Great Rock'N'Roll Bungle (Self-Released)
2 MINUTE MINOR - True Till Death (ZAP)
SPENCER MACK - Testimonial (We Gotta Know)
SPASTIC PANTHERS - Hard Times (Wasted Wax)

HOT WATER MUSIC - True Believers (Shouting Street Audio)
THE TRANZMITORS - Nervous Breakdown (Deranged)
THE HELLACOPTERS - Gimme Shelter (Polar / Psychout)
DEVIL DOGS - Backstage (Crypt)
COFFIN LIDS - Sonic Reducer (Vivid Sound / Bomp)

THE HARD TOMS - Walk on by (Self-Released)
Chris LeBonte - Hard Toms
MSI - Macho Man (Bucko-05 / Schizophrenic)
BLUE COLLAR CRIMINALS - Kiss Off (Self-Released) 

DESKOMUNAL KAOS - Panico (Self-Released)
CUTRE - No al sistema (Self-Released)
Jose (La PUS) - Testimonial
BLIND PIGS - Idiots at Happy Hour (Sweet Fury / Amanecer)
RATOS DE PORAO - Mucha Policia (F.O.A.D. / Roadrunner)

PHONE JERKS - Don't Ring Me Up (Resurrection / Wanda) 
TJ CABOT AND THEE ARTIFICIAL REJECTS - Testimonial
BOOJI BOYS - Family Entertainment (Cruel Noise)
ALIENATION - Waste of Time (Warthog Speak) 
WORD ON THE STREET - The Deal (Self-Released)

POLKAHOLIX - White Wedding (Monopol)

THE ANALOGS - Powies Sie (Lou and Rocked Boys)
Berislav Sabolic (No Hope No Fear) - Testimonial
MODERN DELUSION - Piss On Your Dogg (Crapoulet / Doomtown) 

ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES - Science Fiction - Double Feature (Fat Wreck)

Radio - Sunday, March 10th, 2019

I saw a women on the bus yesterday with a sign reading "Women's Rights are Human Rights", which reminded me how inclusive women are with societal evolution. It warmed my heart to see. In honour of all the women who make up the scene, we pay tribute by playing bands with women in them for the first hour and a half. The last half hour is Black Dots 4: 2005 - 2019. IWD meets BHM. Sadly we were unable to play a lot of material we had programmed for tonight. 

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International Women’s Day 2019

ALIEN BOYS - Lady Day vs. the State (Self-Released)

FUTURA - Spit on the Flag (En Tu Kara)
HAIRCUT - Boys Club (Feel It)
TROIKA – Batallas (Muerte A Tipo / La Agonia de Vivir / No Thanks / Pumpkin / Grita O Muere / Distribuidor Sorell / Victim / Tranzophobia / El Fary Es Dios / Candao / La Negra / Pifia / Tirano Intergaláctico)
KRIMEWATCH – Machismo (Lockin' Out / Break the Records)
ANTIFACES - Casa de Aranas (Self-Released)

ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Sell U Shit! (Self-Released)
FUCKED AND BOUND - Creeps on the Street (Atomic Action / Void Assault)
NAUSEA – Electrodes (Vermiform / Black Noise) 
TIED DOWN - What Would Audre Lorde Do (Self-Released)
CUNTROACHES – Fraud (Self-Released)
HOARDER - Generation Nothing (Self-Released)

RAZORBUMPS - Don't Say Nothin' (Sarcophagus Club)
PROM NITE - I Don't Want To Talk To Pigs (Self-Released)
ACCELA – Consciousness (Not Normal Tapes)
CYBER PINK – Right (Self-Released)
SIAL – Taqlid (Self-Released)
HETZE - Routine Abuse (Loner Cult / Emergence / Up the Punx / !ZAS! Autoproduzioni / Fucking Kill)
SYRINGE – Fake Freedom (Self-Released)

COHERENCE – Eyes (Get Better / A-F / Conditions)
BITE MARKS – Hounds (Self-Released)
MOLAR – Sylvia (Everything Sucks Music)
JUDY AND THE JERKS – Dog (Self-Released)
WHIP - Weak Flesh (Self-Released)
OUTCRY – Chatter (Self-Released)

SPECIAL INTEREST - Black Silk Stalking (Self-Released)
RUBY KARINTO – Mangetsu (Self-Released)
SPELL BREAKER - Wild Night Out (Self-Released)
FEA – Fea (Self-Released)
BLEEDERS - I Hate Men (Self-Released)
GUMMING - Dirt Nap (Self-Released)

MISS DESTINY - Double Headed Snake (R.I.P. Society)
WLMRT - Dark Dollars (Self-Released)
EXOTICA – Control (La Vida Es Un Mus)
GENERACION SUICIDA - Reflejos (Symphony of Destruction / Doomtown / Secret)

HETEROFOBIA - Falsos Aliados (Self-Released)
NO LOVE - Open Mouth (Sorry State)
CRUZ DE NAVAJAS - Suna (Self-Released)
CASUAL HEX - Fool's Paradise (Water Wing)
LITTLE DEBBIE AND THE CRUSADERS - K.B.D. (Self-Released)

JABBER - Only You (Self-Released)

NEIGHBORHOOD BRATS - Nina's Ghost (Dirt Cult)
PERRA VIDA- Heroína (Self-Released)

Black Dots 4: 2005 - 2019


MATERIAL SUPPORT – Know Your Rights (Self-Released)
PMS - Harassment (Self-Released)
BIG JOANIE – Down Down (The Daydream Library System)
SUB SPACE - Serpiente Maldito
NAMATAY SA INGAY - alma Konsensya
SOUL GLO - 
MASS ARREST – White Validation
MINORITY THREAT - Children of the Light
COLONIA - DÍA X
WORD ON THE STREET - Freedom of Choice
JOE BIDEN - No Justice
AUTOMATED TERROR MACHINE - Does It Matter
MAAFA - Not Your Exotic

FASHIONISM – Breaking Out

Radio - Sunday, February 10th, 2019

Tonight's show is the first of a four part series looking at the contributions of black punks and the impacts they had on the scene. This first part looks at the proto punk period (1974) through to hardcore (1984) and could not been pulled together were it not for the excellent work of Chris Murdoch's "Black Dots" presentation. 

We are also indebted to Tony Rettman's book "NYHC" for the Bad Brains period in NYC. The imprint of the Bad Brains defines New York Hardcore.

Download the show here.

So we started with the BAD BRAINS song because the song described the experience of black punks in the scene. 

BAD BRAINS – Black Dots (Caroline)

DEATH (Proto punk)
So we are going to starts at the beginning with a proto punk band from Detroit called Death. The band started in 1971 and initially started out as an R and B band called Rock Fire Funk Express. The band went in a hard rock direction after seeing the Who and Alice Cooper. "Politicians in My Eyes" was the band's first release in 1976 on their own label, DIY before it was known as that. 

DEATH – Politicians in My Eyes (Tryangle)

The band was made up of the Hackney brothers (Bobby, David, and Dannis. They recorded an album in 1975 called  "...For The Whole World To See" which wouldn't see the light of day until 2009. The band was truly a rock n roll victim

DEATH – Rock n‘ Roll Victim (Drag City)

Their music has since been documented in the 2012 documentary "A Band Called Death", a film that has won them a cult following decades after they disbanded.

DEATH – You’re a Prisoner (Drag City)

Their music has since been documented in the 2012 documentary A Band Called Death, a film that has won them a cult following decades after they disbanded.

DEATH – You’re a Prisoner (Drag City)

PURE HELL
In 1974, a band called Pure Hell started up in Philadelphia. Also part of the proto punk era, Pure Hell came up at the same time as MC5, Dead Boys, and the Sex Pistols. The band would play New York City and befriended the New York Dolls and Sid Vicious and in 1978. 

PURE HELL – These Boots are made for Walking (Golden Sphinx)
SID VICIOUS – C’mon Everybody (Virgin)

Golden Sphinx was a label run by Curtis Knight who was in the Squires, aa band that featured a young Jimi Hendrix. Curtis liked the idea of an all black punk band because it was Pulling an Elvis on the music industry.  In his mind he was looking for a black group that could mimic white music. 

PURE HELL - I Feel Bad (Welfare)
JOHNNY THUNDER – One Track Mind

Curtis thought of Pure Hell as a novelty act. Pure Hell recorded an album in 197, but after falling out with the band he refused to release it. The widow of Curtis auctioned off the recording and Welfare would come to release the collection in 2006 by Welfare Records.  The album was called 'Noise Addiction'.

PURE HELL – Wild One (Welfare)

THE NY NIGGERS
Started by two black men who chose the name because Patti Smith had just released a single called “Rock ‘n roll Nigger”. The band name expressed that black punks didn't appreciate the use of that term. The NY Niggers would self-release a single and this is the B-Side.

NY NIGGERS – Headliner (NYN)

There is some confusion about whether there was one band or three in a review below: 

"THE NIGGERS - Seemingly three bands in three different cities (New York/Boston/Detroit) used this ungenteel name. The most prominent band appears to have been the Detroit Niggers, who had a story printed in Creem magazine in 1978 (as part of a larger piece on the Detroit punk scene) and a brief news blurb in Bomp. Both articles had pictures of the band with processed Chuck Berry hairdos and flaunted bare chests. Their songs included "Crazy White Bitch," "Dirty Dogs" and the anthem, "Niggers," and of the band name, members Reno and J.C. Richards explained, "Should we call ourselves The Honkies?" One New York punk legend of our acquaintance suggests that the N.Y. Niggers were "friends" with the late Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious' doomed girlfriend. They self-released a ridiculously obscure single, "Just Like Dresden" b/w "Headliner" in 1978 as the "N.Y. Niggers." Though there's no picture sleeve, the rough punk sound of the record is Detroit influenced enough to possibly suggest it was the same band transplanted out East. (JP)"

- Black Punk Time: Blacks in Punk, New Wave and Hardcore 1976-1984 (Part 2) 
By James Porter and Jake Austen (From Roctober #32, 2002)



NY NIGGERS – Just Like Dresden ’45 (NYN)

Moving over to England, X-Ray Spex started out in 1976 after Poly Styrene saw a Sex Pistols gig. Poly stood out among her peers not just for being a person of colour or being a women but she wore these dental braces and stood against the typical sex object female archetype. "identity" embodied so much about poly's life.   

X-RAY SPEX – Identity (EMI)

There was a story about Poly Styrene chopping her hair in Johnny Rotten's place to take that anti-sex object one step further, and is a perfect segue into their most famous song....and the song that I grew up listening to over and over at summer camp off of some compilation. it took my years to realize that they had a single and an album out. 

X-RAY SPEX – Oh Bondage Up Yours (EMI)
X-RAY SPEX - Warrior at Woolworths (EMI)

Poly Styrene also had a unique vocal sound. She had been trained in Opera and her voice had been described as "effervescently discordant" and powerful enough to drill holes through sheet metal. Being of mixed race and wearing a lot of dayglo Poly was referred to as the face of modern day feminism. 

Meanwhile in Los Angeles another strong black woman was having an impact on their punk scene. Karla (Mad Dog) Duplantier would join the CONTROLLERS on drums. The band was unknown until Karla joined partially because she was a phenomenal drummer She also went to radio stations and started getting them better gigs. The GERMS borrowed her kick drum when playing and recording. and she wound up joining the FLESH EATERS which is where we found a recording with her on it. 

THE FLESH EATERS - Ten Inch Razor (Upsetter)
BAD BRAINS - Redbone in the City (Caroline)

BAD BRAINS - DC
BAD BRAINS started out as a jazz fusion that did covers, but their second guitarist,  Sid McCray, turned them onto the SEX PISTOLS, which is evidenced by "Redbone in the City". They were nervous about being seen as a novelty act and didn’t play out right away. It wasn’t until they saw footage of PURE HELL that they started playing shows on their own and would go on to lay the foundation for what would be known as DC Hardcore.

BAD BRAINS - Banned in DC (Caroline)
BAD BRAINS - Attitude (Caroline)

Positive Mental Attitude first expressed in the song "Attidude' would becme a defining ideology behind DC HarDCore. They became mentors for the TEEN IDLES and SOA. They would hold showcases for as many as 10 - 15 bands at a time. They shared a rehearsal space with the TEEN IDLES so they had somewhere to practise. They would give them tips on how to play their instruments. BAD BRAINS played the housing projects they were form in DC and Maryland. Valley Green housing project is one of them that had one of these matinees. But these shows were the reason why they got in trouble which is what the song "Banned in DC" is about. The bands that BAD BRAINS nurtured would go on to play wilder shows then them. So the mayhem was set in motion. What is interesting is that the TEEN IDLES would bring back the Huntington Skank from California which would make shows more dangerous. And they would not get banned. But the all black band was the one that got in trouble by the authorities.

So the next set will be about the bands in DC who also had prominiant black punks in their bands. Toni Young, was a promoter and was able to join RED C who only ever release 4 songs on the legendary “Flex Your Head” compilation. The song that they are most well known for is “Pressure’s On”, a song about police harassment. 

RED C - Pressure's On (Dischord)
VOID - Go South (Dischord)
SCREAM - Solidarity (Dischord)

VOID were from Colombia, Maryland and were younger than most everyone in the scene. They had a guitarist named Buppa Dupree who would inspire a young Shawn Brown to be in a band a few years later. VOID wrote a song called “Go South” about southerners who would come up to see their show and fight the band because they didn’t like the fact that Bubba was black and in the band. They also had a song called “Black Jewish and Poor” was a song that described the make up of this band.

SCREAM were another great band from DC and had Eugene Thompson better known as Skeeter, playing guitar for them. He was the person who convinced the band to add a lot of non-punk elements into their first record like acoustic guitar, reggae, country. They were not well liked at first. They opened up for Minor Threat a lot and they would cover “Guilty of Being White” and Skeeter would sing. They are one of my all time favourite bands from DC.

BAD BRAINS - NYC SCENE
So after Bad Brains got in trouble with those showcase shows they moved to New York city and their sound becomes synonymous with the New York Hard Core sound. BAD BRAINS experience is well documented in Tony Rettman's book called “NYHC”. The chapter on BAD BRAINS is called “The Big take Over” which takes on a new meaning with their arrival.

BAD BRAIN – Big Take Over (Roir)

Tim Summer did a radio show on WNYU called “Noise the Show”. He spoke about getting the “Pay to Cum” single as soon as it came out, which means it was released when they were in NYC. He said that he knew that this was something completely different from anything else. It was a record where nothing was the same afterwards, like “Blitzkrieg Bop” or “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks. It’s in that league. “Pay to Cum” invented an entire genre of music in a minute and a half.

BAD BRAIN – Pay to Cum (Roir)
BAD BRAIN – Supertouch - Shitfit (Roir)

The BAD BRAINS used to have an introduction “Quicker than the Dickies, Faster than the RAMONEs, ladies and gentlemen : the BAD BRAINS.

The editor of Tse Tse Fly zine said the BAD BRAINS were the centre of influence. Anybody from the CRO MAGS to AGNOSTIC FRONT to the MOB were indebted to the BAD BRAINS.

Todd Youth wrote that the BAD BRAINS were our Led Zeppelin and our Beatles.

Here is a set of bands influenced by BAD BRAINS starting with the STIMULATIORS who open the first time BAD BRAINS  come to NYC.

THE STIMULATORS - M.A.C.H.I.N.E. (Roir)
CRO MAGS – Dub (Cro Mag Recording)
BEASTIE BOYS – Beastie (Roir)
THE MAD - I Hate Music (Disgusting)
HEART ATTACK – Society (Serious Clown)
URBAN WASTE – Public Opinion (Mob Style / Mad at the World / Even Worse / Way Back When)
AGNOSTIC FRONT - Society Sucker (Rat Cage / Combat Core / Bridge Nine)

The breakdown in "Society Sucker" sounds like it is derived from "the Big Takeover" and "Supertouch". 

John Dancy was the drummer in Urban Waste and the song "Public Opinion" would express the identity crisis experienced by a black kid in the punk scene. 

Jesse Malin from HEART ATTACK expressed how helpful the BAD BRAINS were in loaning them their gear and had HEART ATTACK  play a set at their show. He said they were super into developing a youth movement. 

David Hahn from the THE MAD put up BAD BRAINS when they first came to town, took them out for Chinese food, and took them to clothing stores to get their second hand clothes.

The BEASTIE BOYS in their recent book talked about how important BAD BRAINS gigs were in NYC. 

The Dub song on the Age of Quarrel demo suggests the lasting impression that the BAD BRAINS had on a young Harley Flanagan when he was in the STIMULATORS. 

Skate scene
The skate scene was made up of a lot of black punks like Mike Cornelius who was in JFA from Pheonix. Probably the band that defined skate-core. 

JFA - Skateboard / We Know You Suck (Placebo)
McRAD - Dominant Force (Red Music)
YDI - Out for Blood (Blood Bubble)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Alternative Tentacles)

MCRAD from Philadelphia featured Chuck Treece, He would go on to play for UNDERDOG which we will feature in next week’s show.

YDI featured Howard Twigs on drums, also from Philadelphia. He expressed his frustrations in the songs “Out for Blood”

DEAD KENNEDYS feature D.H. Peligro on drums. His first recording with the band is “In God We Trust Inc.” which features “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”. The song took on a new meeting as the band started to get attacked by nazi skins because D.H. was in the band.

The STRANGLERS talked to me about how they developed their sound. The bass drives their sound. That came from checking out King Tubby's sound system. 

THE STRANGLERS – Peaches (United Artists)
BASEMENT 5 - Heavy Traffic (Island)

Source:

Chris Murdoch "Black Dots"


Tony Rettman "NYHC"

Radio - Sunday, April 12th, 2015

Every six months we host an on-air fundraising drive. In our training, the Station Manager thought a pass off between EXD and the Prophesy was impossible so I tried to prove him wrong with out little game of name that tune which gets played every week between us off air. But this week it was my turn because the Prophesy aren't as well versed in the finer areas of punk. So I tried with covers of Kool and the Gang and the Specials at the begining of the show to disasterous effect. Listen on....

BIG BOYS - Hollywood Swingin’ (Touch 'n Go)

SNUFF – Do Nothing (Workers Playtime)
SCREECHING WEASEL – I can see clearly (Lookout)
THE VAPIDS – You’re tearin’ me apart (Double Hell)

Every couple of weeks we record bands in our broadcast studio (known as studio 3). Candy has really been involved in the video side of recording these bands and so much work goes into those that I wanted her to come on air and tell you some of what she gets up to with these sessions. I also had her program some material from these sessions.....

TEENAGE HEAD – Disgusteen (CIUT)
FLESH RAG - Milk Man (CIUT)
VCR - Pizza Party (CIUT)

Sarde is one of the women behind the women takeover of the show and also runs out of time to play material in her sets. She came in to make up for that and tell us about some magic moments of the takeover.

SLURS – Cartoon People (Self-Released)
SOA – I Hate the Kids (Dischord)
THE FREEZE – Idiots at Happy Hour (Modern Method)
COMA – Coda (ADK)

This is the first of Rob's radio appreciation sets.

MISFITS – Static Age (Caroline)
FLESHEATERS – Radio dies screaming (Atavistic)
PROBLEM CHILDREN – On the Air (Problem Children Wreckords)
THE BANANAS – Radio Action (Recess)

Davis Brown was a co-host on the show for a few years, but has since moved back to Truro. He runs a label called Sewercide and offered out his last three releases as a prize package so we played a song from each with exception for the last release which comes from a demo.

DYSCONTROL – Lies (Sewercide)
ABJECT PAX – Abject Pax (Sewercide)
WORD ON THE STREET – H.R.M. Mayhem (Self-Released)

More appreciation for the medium from punk.

WAND – Floating Head (In the Red)
THE WIMPS – Hamburger radio (Sniff)
KILL-A-WATTS – Radio Suicide (Rip Off)
TEENGENERATE – radio 55 (Crypt)

Alex from the Sofistifucks came in to answer phones but I wanted to get his unique perspective of what it was like to have played studio 3.Fathers was supposed to come in and talk about their session but they left us hanging high and dry. I still played a song from their demo and will play their session on Sunday's show.

FATHERS – I Gotta Piss (Self-Released)
MDC – No Place to Piss (R Radical)
SCHOOL JERKS – Slums of the Future (Bad Vibrations)

More radio love

ELVIS COSTELLO – Radio Radio (Columbia)
BOW WOW WOW – Radio G String (EMI)

Radio - Sunday November 18th, 2012

This is Equalizing-X-Distort, the two hour hardcore punk show from Toronto that broadcasts live on CIUT 89.5FM every Sunday night. This is the program for Sunday November 18th, 2012 in which we played the likes of Gang of Four, the Real Kids, the Spits, Adrenalin O.D., Motorhead, the Crumbsuckers, the Ramones, and so many others. The demo feature is Word on the Street who are from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Click here to download the file. 

HOAX - Skills or Death (Self-Released)

BILL BONDSMEN - Things Fall Apart (Self-Released)
VALSE TRIST - Takuukorjaus (Kamaset Levtt / Roku / Popo's Bistro)
NOMEANSNO - Wake Up (Ant Acid Audio)
GANG OF FOUR - At home he feels like a tourist (Strange Fruit)
CAREERS IN SCIENCE - Rockets! (Self-Released)
TEENANGER - Bank Account (Telephone Explosion)

DEKODER - Like Men (Self-Released)
VAPID - Take a walk, baby (Nominal / Deranged)
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY - Blue Cage (Residue)
PUNK LOREX - Liittoudutaan (Kamaset Levtt)
SUICIDAS - Hoy No (Kamaset Levtt)

WRECKLESS ERIC - Whole Wide World (Rhino)
REAL KIDS - All Kindsa Girls (Norton)
NO BUNNY - Boneyard (1234 Go)
SONIC AVENGERS - Television Youth (Dirtnap)
SPITS - Life of Crime (Thrift Store)

ADRENALIN O.D. - A.O.D. vs. Son of Godzilla (Buy our records)
MOTORHEAD - Ain't my crime (GWR)
CRUMBSUCKERS - Bullshit society (Combat)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Bad Choice (High Anxiety)
VINCAS - Black Mountain (Douche Master)

RAYDIOS - Bad Signal (Self-Released)
SLOBS - Chronic Disease (Self-Released)
KREMLIN - Duped (Self-Released)
CRUTCHES - Shit Storm (Self-Released)
SNAKEPIT - Collapse (Self-Released)

RAMONES - Judy is a Punk (Norton)
MONO MEN - Boss (Estrus)
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - Action Time Vision (Hangman)
CRAMPS - Cornfed Dames (Big Beat)
UNNATURAL AXE - The Creeper (Redrum)

ZYANOSE - Envy (Nose Noise)
EVIL ARMY - Severe Metal Disorder (Get revenge)
MONDO GEKO - Secret Sector (Hit Time)
INSULT - We don't give a fuck (Balouski)
COPS - Water Polo Massacre (Self-Released)
GEORGE HARRISON - Maho dickhead fuckin' pig
CYBORG - Past Denier (Self-Released)
CONVERGE - Trespasses (Deathwish Inc)
BLACK AGE - Apathy (Self-Released)
HAIL OF RAGE - the feeling is mutual (Anomie)
HATE UNIT - Old school or no school (Thrash 'n Burn)
SOME CHICKEN - Blood on the wall (Damaged goods)
OLD FEARS - Bertolome de la Casas (Self-Released)
NERV - inside out (Self-Released)
HEKTOMBE - Sobras (Indmita)
JUST DIE - Nothing Personal (Self Aware)

Demo Feature
WORD ON THE STREET - Rise to the Challenge  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Cut to the Chase  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - H.R.M. Mayhem  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Steppin' out of line  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Freedom of choice  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)
WORD ON THE STREET - Round of Applause  (Crackin Up / Blank Stare)

Word on the Street "The Street is Watching" demo

Word on the Street is more than a literary festival here in Toronto. They are a straight edge band from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. They recorded this six song demo, which we just featured on last Sunday's show.

Their sounds reminds me of a cross between Go! and Straight Ahead.

This demo has a couple of pieces of artwork.

The band is:
Dexter Outhit: Drums
Ben Brennan: Bass
Cody Googoo: Guitar
Chris Murdoch: Vocals

Amd you can reach the band at
Blogspot: www.wordonthestreet902.blogspot.com
Contact: cody_cross@hotmail.com

This demo can be downloaded at http://wordonthestreet.bandcamp.com/track/word-on-the-street. the demo is also available through Crackin up tapes and Blank Stare records.

Chris and Cody moonlight in a band called Mean Streets with some guys from Mean Mug. They basically combined names of each other's band to come up with the name. It's a unique idea.

The songs on this demo are:

1. Rise to the Challenge
2. Cut to the Chase
3. H.R.M Mayhem
4. Steppin' out of line
5. Freedom of Choice
6. Round of Applause